Observations: Artist talk with Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch

Collecting Norden, Worlding Northern Art (WONA) and Exploration, Exploitation and Exposition of the Gendered Heritage of the Arctic (XARC) welcome you to this exciting Collecting Norden in Museums event with the Austrian duo Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch moderated by Hanne Hammer Stien (WONA) (The event is held in English)

The event takes place on Teams and at the Academy of Arts (Kunstakademiet), Tromsø. If you want to attend in person, please meet at KA 4003 Seminarrom 1, and if you want to join through Teams, follow this link for registration.

About Nicole Six and Paul Petritsch:

Six & Petritsch have been realizing films, photographs, displays, artist books, site- and context-specific installations and projects together and jointly with institutions and in public space since 1997. They write about their own work:

"Our projects are time-based metaphors, documents, and questions for current discussions of our society. Our interest in the search for the essence of things leads us via the view of the world to the space within our own four walls and the immediate surroundings of humans and our environment. Simple performative works are the first step into this field. These conditions, which are inherent to all expeditions, danger, for example, deprivation, and enduring hardship for no reason, are constant companions and give rise to parables about society on planet Earth.

We explore and traverse our environment with very concrete experiments. Through expeditions into everyday life, across oceans and polar regions, through concrete jungles and lunar landscapes we sound the borders of our existence and perception. We show works that map time, in which we circumnavigate the world, expose ourselves experimentally to a whiteout or interpret cartographies of historical expeditions to the poles. We explore breaking through a layer of ice and the resulting way people treat their environment. We are interested in the history of evolution on and beyond planet Earth, up to the point where our environment and the landscape with the neighbouring beings who live there, time becomes physically perceptible as a determining factor."